Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-03-02 | Page 4 | Says He Had Right to Call Judge a Pig

SAYS HE HAD RIGHT TO CALL JUDGE A PIG Chicago, March 2. Next Friday Judge Brentano will hear testimony in a writ of habeas corpus obtained by Charles S. Beattle, an attorney who had been fined $200 and locked up In default of payment by Municipal Judge Blake. After a controversy with the latter concerning tho trial of a case, Beattio is said to have applied this remark to the court: "You are no moro fit to try a case on that bench than a pig " The fine and incarceration followed. "The point I raise Is this." say Beattio. "When I called Judge Blako a pig he had adjourned court and descended from the bench. By that act he had divested himself of all th 1 sacredness that Invests the person of the court. He became a private individual, in-dividual, and I had as much right to call him a pig as I have to use that term toward any other individual who deserved it. On this point I stand I I stand there as firmly as tho pyramids upon their foundation."